We have almost completed our first week of farm sitting for my
brother Charlie and Sheila. We have kept
busy tending and watering the gardens and lawns. I’ve done some pruning here and there as
well. We’ve had a few hot days where we had to run the air conditioner in the
motor home and that turned out to a bit of a learning challenge. Since we have a 50 foot extension on the end
of our shore power cord, there is a bit of a power drop. The air conditioner has three different
settings that can be used and it took a while to find the one that works. The other two setting kept tripping the fuse
in the inverter through which all shore power is routed.
It has been really nice to be parked all by ourselves again
after being shoehorned in at Cluxewe for the past six weeks. We enjoyed our time there visiting with John
and Anne and being so close to the ocean but, listening to the neighbours' every
word got oppressive pretty darn fast. Aileen
drove herself down to Duncan on Sunday as we decided it was too hot to leave
the pets and motor home unattended as we didn't want to depend on the air conditioner.
I picked a few wild blackberries (not the big domestic ones
that have gone wild, but the little native Douglas Blackberries) out in the bush. I put them in our pancakes this morning and
they were very tasty. We’re still
monitoring the third cow waiting for her to calve. The other two calved just before we
arrived. This will be her first calf so
we hope to be able to spot any trouble before it gets serious. She keeps going off by herself which is often
an indicator that the birth is about to happen but, not yet.
We’ve gone for a couple drives around the area and have been
trying to replace our carpet protecting mats in the motor home. I’ve taken my bike on a few rides around as
well. I have to admit that my cameras
have been inactive for the past week or more.
I’m including some photos from
back in my film days which I have dug out of the archive.
This is another of my log sandwich series from years ago. The slide of an old outhouse was combined with a slide of the end section of a log in the same slide mount
The Fisgard Lighthouse near Victoria, BC. I was squatted down as low as I could go with my butt nearly in the ocean to get this angle
A resting Flamingo taken at Crystal Gardens, a long defunct indoor garden in Victoria, BC
I do admire the log sandwich photo. I'd've loved hearing that you squatted down so low that your trouser seat got soaked! And I suppose that the flamingo is also defunct along with the garden. Good luck with that calf. I've never had experience helping birth a calf, but I watched it happen in Billy Crystal's City Slickers movie.
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